Issue When installing the TFS Integration Tools on a machine that only has the Team Explorer installed, the installation fails with the error “ This tool requires the TFS client object model ”. This has been identified as an issue and will be considered...

Pictures of the day As you can surely notice, the first ALM Rangers session was special, fun and we got *very* candid feedback from the audience, which is PHENOMENAL. Keep it up! Learning's of the day Concerns The feedback we received in our first session...

Our team has been discussing books and, more recently, articles focused on leadership. The latest article, Look Beyond the Team: It’s About the Network , by Jon R. Katzenbach, made me contemplate why we are reading and not writing these articles, as our...

In Submit your Visual Studio idea using UserVoice we explained how we listen to new ideas and how you should submit your ideas. In this post we will answer the “when can I submit ideas for ALM Ranger projects” question.
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If you read through Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers you will quickly realize that the Visual Studio ALM Rangers community is an assimilation of amazing individuals who are passionate about the community, Visual Studio ALM, mentorship and creating...

TechReady is technical readiness event that takes place twice a year, bringing together Microsoft engineers from all over the world. The ALM Rangers will be representing the latest wave of readiness solutions. Watch a movie that covers the latest release...

We have near-silently refreshed a number of ALM Ranger projects on CodePlex this week. When I saw this flower I had to think of our mission. In this case it would be … filling a driveway crack and delivering a beautiful value-add solution The following...

The Visual Studio team is actively listening to your feedback and is very interested in your ideas to improve the products. This includes the Visual Studio ALM Rangers who are actively reviewing the feedback and looking for new ALM Ranger project opportunities...

Continued from Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features , a quick de-tour through Notes #4 – Robert MacLean and co. poster and other gems and a switch to Notes #5 – C# and Asynchronous Programming . The more I dust-off my memory and the more...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for more details. Who you are? Dmitry Andreev – Technology Evangelist, working on popularization of top notch Microsoft technologies thru various...

Sorry, today we will be brief as we had lots of sessions today and are all tired … chrrrzzzzz … Pictures of the day … blue sky in Seattle?!? Discussions of the day VM Factory futures … we need your candid feedback on today’s factory and vNext. Scrum/Ruck...

Pictures of the Day Thoughts of the day Task.WaitAll(taskAnalyzeFeedbackFirst, taskGetSomeSleepFirst) { new BlogPost(“Context – How could the ALM Rangers (p)=>{Listen(); Act();} process work?) } Previous posts Seattle – Day 1: Presenting...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who you are? I’m Jesse Houwing, a senior consultant working for Avanade Netherlands, living in Utrecht and working primarily...

PROJECT NEWS Visual Studio Readiness “GIG” The latest release notes can be found here , whereby the ALM Ranger teams are busy wrapping up the “GIG” and preparing for the RTM milestone. We are freezing the ALM Rangers “GIG” on July 20 th , to announce...